Delaware Senate Bill 288 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: Introduced on June 22 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-06-22 - Assigned to Energy & Transit Committee in Senate
Pending: Senate Energy & Transit Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

Delaware’s carbon dioxide reduction goals have been met, several years’ worth of average expenditures from the last three years sits in reserve accounts, and the rising costs of emission permits from continued participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is limiting electric generation in the state adding cost with no real environmental benefit. A unilateral tax on carbon dioxide emissions no longer makes sense. Therefore, Delaware’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative will be suspended until a national tax system is adopted.

An Act To Amend Title 7 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Sen. Gerald Hocker [R]	Sen. Gregory Lavelle [R]	Rep. Stephen Smyk [R]	Sen. David Lawson [R]
Rep. Timothy Dukes [R]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. Harvey Kenton [R]
Rep. Ronald Gray [R]	Rep. Daniel Short [R]	Sen. David Wilson [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-06-22	Senate	Assigned to Energy & Transit Committee in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/e8a108919e780ef685257fd400736122?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis148.nsf/vwLegislation/SB+288/$file/legis.html?open